Special Preview of Episode 5 of Letters from Sing Sing

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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As a special preview for Dateline listeners, here’s a sneak peek from the fifth episode of Letters from Sing Sing, a new original podcast from NBC News Studios hosted by longtime investigative reporter Dan Slepian. In this excerpt, JJ finally gets a face-to-face with the Manhattan DA’s office. But things don’t go quite how he’d hoped. Follow the podcast and listen to the first five episodes now: https://link.chtbl.com/lfss_fdfv

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dan Sleppian, a Dateline investigative producer for more than 25 years.
0:05.3	My new podcast, Letters From Sinksing, is out now, and I hope you're already following.
0:11.1	What you're about to hear is a clip from the fifth episode, in which JJ finally gets
0:15.0	a chance to meet with the Manhattan D.A.'s office about his case.
0:18.9	But things don't go quite the way he'd hoped.
0:22.0	You can hear the rest of this episode and other episodes, just search for Letters From Sinksing
0:27.4	wherever you're listening, and please make sure to follow the podcast.
0:36.5	It's October of 2012, more than 12 years since JJ first entered prison.
0:42.4	I'm back inside Sinksing to check in with him.
0:45.7	We're in his housing block, standing on the second tier outside his cell.
0:49.9	There's a TV mounted behind him that everyone in the unit shares.
0:54.2	It's been eight months since NBC aired my investigation into his case.
1:24.2	But JJ tells me he's also frustrated that he's still locked up.
1:52.4	He thought my investigation had finally revealed the truth about his innocence.
1:56.6	That someone in authority would take action, and he'd be free.
2:00.4	He says the other men on his cell block felt the same way.
2:03.6	Believe it or not, a lot of them are pissed off.
2:05.8	They're wondering what I'm still doing here.
2:08.2	If anybody was to have hope and would be me and everybody had hope in me, give them half
2:12.9	my cell away.
2:13.9	Thinking that my time has finally come.
2:17.5	You're still here?
	...

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